(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Kinda is ready for her close-up.
Brookfield Zoo's three-week-old giraffe will make her public debut Friday, after spending time bonding behind the scenes with her mother since her Aug. 19 birth.
Kinda, a rare name with Swahili and Arabic origins, means "beautiful."
Jim Schulz/CZS-Brookfield Zoo
For the immediate future, the mother and baby giraffe can be seen daily between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Hours will be extended in the coming weeks, officials said.
It may take Kinda up to a year to be fully weaned.
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